S2W5

To Do:

Morning Prayer & Compline daily, with reading aloud & sung hymns
Combined School Odd-Week reading
Grammar-land
Map work with light box:  trace map of Greece & find Sparta, Athens, etc (or trace USA map)
Draw Write Now daily
daily cursive exercise
daily math workbook exercise
Magic Schoolbus hands-on science:  human body
2 exercises in science workbooks
Thursday or Friday:  field trip to either Catawba Science Center or Schiele Museum

Tuesday a.m. update:  Work on newspaper! B began saying last fall that he wanted to publish a homeschooling newspaper, and so far two friends have gone to the trouble of contributing something for it, so perhaps we should get cranking. We read their pieces last night for inspiration, and today I'll give  both kids some computer time for writing. Composition writing, that is -- they still have to do their handwriting as usual.

finished Captains Courageous as bedtime reading. Now for the next book, whatever it may be . . . time to search the shelves . . .

Wednesday:  read about Filippino Lippi today in Knights of Art. Now, we happen to have a little gold-framed copy of that beautiful Madonna of his with the diaphanous headdress and a sort of rocky desert in the background, and currently (it's 11 a.m. right now) the kids are searching the house for her. She's not hidden;  she's where she always was, but now they'll notice her and know who painted her original.